Village Quest 2.4.0

✨ New Features

• Improved new-player journey

  • Added a simple first-day quest choice, Welcome Assignment, and Village Contacts.

  • Villages can now become personally known without immediately consuming a Trade Route slot.

• Guild Corners

  • Added physical Guild Corners with Generic and Desert styles.

  • Guild Notice Posts provide local guidance and point players toward available village work.

  • Existing developed villages can be retrofitted.

• 5 new Village Identity stories

  • The Shared Table — Granary

  • Sparks for the Road — Forge

  • The Long Drive — Pasture

  • Lanterns in Bloom — Apiary

  • Ink Between Villages — Archive

• 10 Cross-Village Commissions

  • Covers every pairing of the five Village Identities.

  • Each pairing now has its own unique objective.

• Guest Commissions

  • Eligible commissions can temporarily use matching villages from another guild member’s network.

  • Guest villages do not create permanent Trade Routes or consume route slots.

• Expanded Chronicle

  • Personal village history is now separated from guild-wide accomplishments.

• Shared Guild Projects

  • Guild members can contribute together.

  • Participation rewards remain personal and exactly-once per player.

• New 2.4 Finale: The Bells of Concord

  • Unlocks after completing:

    • 3 local stories

    • 3 Cross-Village Commissions

    • 3 connected villages

  • Completing all five Village Identities and all ten pairings remains optional mastery content.

• New Prestige Rewards

  • Story Memories

  • Commission Seals

  • Guild Waymarker

  • Atlas Illustration

  • New titles

  • Concord Plaque

  • Guild Standard

  Rewards focus on history, progression, and prestige rather than power creep.

• Expanded /vq town, Questmaster, Journal, Guild Notice Post, and progression guidance in English, German, and Spanish.

🔧 Improvements & Fixes

• Major land-route navigation rework

  • Caravans now follow surveyed X/Y/Z elevation, improving navigation through tunnels, bridges, underpasses, stairs, and elevated player-built routes.

  • Trade income and Guild rewards still use horizontal route distance.

  • Existing legacy routes and ferry travel remain compatible.

• Added explicit Peaceful Mode alternatives for combat-dependent stories, Pilgrim work, and caravan encounters.

  • Difficulty changes now reset only incompatible active objective progress, not completed chapters.

• Improved Night Bells

  • The threatened Story Village now remains consistent across difficulty changes and shared party progression.

• Hardened:

  • Caravan incidents

  • Owner-only event completion

  • Route Map actions

  • Route world/dimension handling

  • Wayshrine identity across dimensions

• Improved support for large and modded villages without force-loading distant chunks.

• Guild invitations now expire after 7 days, including safe migration for existing invitations.

💾 Compatibility

Existing 2.3.1 saves, village history, earned rewards, routes, and progression remain compatible with 2.4.0.